It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the… — Homer Bone Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
At the time Latin America was composed only of colonies. We were up against the biggest army of the colonial world, the… — Michele Montas Copy Share Image
I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
I think there is a risk that the Holocaust will be placed under a glass bubble just like the Napoleonic Wars or… — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Copy Share Image
In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
